[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] Request for Feedback: VTK Textbook Strawman

[Berk Geveci]

Wouldn't a tool like pandoc allow us to maintain some sort of markdown that
can be converted to both something online and LaTeX at the same time? It
would be great to support both as we would be interested in support a
print-on-demand kind of book on Amazon. There are still people out there
that like printed books (like me :-) ).

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Will, I guess I did not envision a traditional book. This is a web site
> that is alive. It will present well on all platforms including mobile.
> Things like indexes aren't really needed.
>
> That said if folks want latex so be it. Not me. I can fill my time with
> other stuff.
>
> In the meantime, I'll do some more experiments.
>
> Bill
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 5:30 AM Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Maclean
>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I would seriously consider LaTeX for the reasons mentioned.
>> Additionally, it
>> > is really well suited for rendering equations.
>>
>> I don't know much about mkdocs, but I believe you can configure it to
>> render LaTeX equations:
>>
>> https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/253#issuecomment-196486412
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthew
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